THE FLOGG HAS IDENTIFIED AND BLOWN THE LID ON A DANGEROUS NEW RELIGIOUS CULT IN ST LUCIA. IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY WE NOW PUBLISH AN EXPOSE OF ONE OF THEIR CONTROVERSIAL CORE BELIEFS. (By the way, The FLOGG started this cult specifically for the purpose of of explosing it.)
HERE IS ONE OF THEIR EMERGENT
THEORIES/BELIEFS/TENANTS OF FAITH ADDRESSING ONE OF THE MAJOR CONTENTIONS
BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND SCIENCE
Creation vs the Big Bang Theory
Scientific Seven Days - That's me, Rasta! |
The Book says my Lord created everything in
seven days and if you know anything about God, you know He can do that. He can make universes by sneezing if He so desired.
Science and right thinking reason, however, insist that
creation had to take billions of years. Ironically, science confesses that the
expansion of the universe from an infinitesimally small and dense singularity
into the approximate giant it remains today took about a moment. It’s the
cooling down, the traveling of light, the transformation of gases into heavier
matter, the ordering of galaxies and systems and the sparking and evolution of
life that took for-fucking-ever.
Um, yes, of course I see it now....It's so self-explanatory. Not! |
As a good free-thinking Biblically-bred
Ras-ventist heretic rationalist (and you still haven’t heard the half of it), I
have struggled to reason out the differences between what God says in the Bible
and what He says in nature. Questions about gays and black holes and hell and
of course, if we are to start at the beginning, Creation.
Did it take seven literal days or did it
take jafrillions of years?
This is my current conclusion:
If men had a hand in the writing of the
Bible but only God hands wrote the starlight from distant galaxies, who am I
supposed to believe literally, the Book or the starlight?
The question answers itself.
I believe in God.
I think atheism is
unproveable, unreasonable and illogical egotism. Agnosticism is way more honest
and reasonable. Deism doesn’t have to follow these rules. We who know God only
know because we believe. You, the poor atheist philistine heathen, cannot know,
because you do not first believe.
Eurocentric reoresentation of God
With His handmaiden Gravity
and his
bitch, Physics
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Rules bend to our God’s will. The immutable laws
of nature are tattooed on the soulskinDNA of the universe by His hand. Gravity
is His handmaiden and physics is his bitch.
God appeals to me on many levels, but is
most appealing as a reasonable God, who made the universe in a way that teaches
us and encourages our growth, rather than as a God who requires our unthinking
devotion and worship.
Einstein was really a method actor
Whose best role was playing
God the scientist designing the universe
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But even if God was a tyrant, I am still rather enthralled by the idea that I become more myself, more what I am capable
of being by submission to His Will. Considering the mind-boggling factors of
chance and fate that a human is subjected to in a godless world, even a tyrant
God who doesn't really exists has broad market appeal.
One might also notice that atheists tend to be
well-off people, never sufferers, but rather men who are vain enough to imagine
that they got to where they are by their own volition, momentum, intelligence. Men
who suffer tend to hear God’s Voice better and reason out His existence, enjoy
His mercy and grace and be lifted up by His Hope. Rich boys think it's something special about themselves that causes success
Atheists are dumb. They haven’t fully
thought this thing through.
And if there’s one thing God hates, it’s
someone who hasn’t fully thought it through.
I’ve thought it through, Lord.
There is no fighting with the speed of
light and what it tells us about cosmic distances and the age of the space we
inhabit. In order to fight it, you have to remain ignorant of it. There's no fighting with what God tells us in His own language, the language of light, physics and math.
I love the Bible. But I’m
no preacher’s sucker or patsy. I believe what God says more than I could ever believe what some guys translated from Hebrew and Greek, edited up and down and then blamed on The Most High. I believe the starlight.
Shhh...God is talking. He's speaking in starlight. Let them who have ears hear... |
Big up Ras! Shhh... God is talking !
ReplyDeleteThanks for bigging up the flog in Laba. I see the numbers going up. I know it's you who gave them the virus....
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ReplyDeleteGreat finding this post as I've spent several hours this week listening to Hitchens, Dawkins et al on the topic.
ReplyDeleteAgnostics, I agree, do hold the logical high ground, but an atheist friend insists that the burden of proof is on those who say that God exists, and without hard evidence of this, theists might as well worship any random figment of their imaginations.
The Bible is full of contradictions and the mere fact that its most popular translations were sponsored by people with agendas makes it a lodestone for the 'conspiracists'. However, a quasi-deist can pick the nice bits (if they decide to have some sides with their chicken) and ignore both the fact that Matthew and Luke don't agree on Jesus' year of birth, and XPope's suggestion that Dionysius Exiguus (and not the desire to make the prophecies true) is to blame for it all.
What would your response be to those who say that deists are simply people who chose the coward's side of Pascal's wager, but are too smart to try to rely on the Bible to prove God's existence?
Wow...dude...thanks for even taking this seriously...
ReplyDeletecan i have a moment to think
(and google wtf passcal's wager is....)
i promise to get back 2u
INSTINCTIVE, UNMEDITATED RESPONSE 1:
ReplyDeleteLike I said, Deists don't have to prove anything. Believing in God is an act of faith. It cannot be empiricized, proven, measured accurately, broken down into units.
And now back to the study...
thanks for pushing me on this, btw
love your handle